Tall Bāshir (fortification)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/40

A fortress in south-eastern Turkey that developed into an important city in the County of Edessa.

Names

  • Arabic: تل باشر = Tall Bāshir 1
  • Syriac: ܬܠܒܫܪ = TLBShR 2

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 40، 474 [Arabic].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 596 [Syriac].
    • Tell Bašer: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 195, 211, 216, 230-232, 233, 259, 282-284, 293-297, 299, 366, 478 [French].
    • Tell-Bashīr: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), 122, 132, 160, 162, 164, 166, 216, 260, 264, 282, 286, 288, 290, 294, 380 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Tall Bāshir” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/40.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: abstract and Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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